Making and Playing the Northumbrian Small-Pipes: A Study of Joe Hutton and Archie Dagg
Description
A study of one branch of the Northumbrian piping tradition, showing the functional role of the small-pipes in the area where the collector's two informants, Joe Hutton and Archie Dagg live. Emphasis is placed upon the attitudes which determine the nature of the piping tradition within this community. The dissertation comprises six chapters. The first traces the development of the Northumbrian pipes, the second focusses on Archie Dagg, maker of Northumbrian small-pipes, and the third chapter considers musical literacy and the approach to the music. Chapter Four focusses on Joe Hutton and learning the small-pipes, Chapter Five describes the musical environment in which the two informants exist, with sections on competitions and attitudes to the instrument. The final chapter examines Joe Hutton, his piping style, repertoire and hornpipe tunes. Extracts from tape-recorded interviews, tune transcriptions and photographs are included throughout these chapters. Typed transcripts of tape-recorded interviews with the two informants, made in June, August and November 1976, are included as the first of three appendices. The second appendix contains a photocopy of a booklet, 'The Northumbrian Bagpipes', authored by W. A. Cocks and J. F. Bryan, and published by The Northumbrian Pipers' Society in 1975 (49 leaves). The third appendix contains a typed transcript of a letter, originally published in the magazine 'English Dance and Song' in 1959, concerning traditional dancing in Fairhaugh in 1929.
Metadata
| Identifier | sqr1qp9y |
| IRN | 410213 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/177 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/sqr1qp9y |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | Harrison, Stephen |
| Date | 1977 |
| Size and Medium | iii, 160 unbound typed leaves, [107]; 9 b/w, 6 colour photographs. |